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Hero Lock-up :(

Hello,
I've been using my Hero since 8 days.
Today i've entered pattern lock too many times to see what happens.
After few tries it has locked the device and ask me for an google acconut email and passwd.
But i cannot access it by my gmail account that i've entered on start up config.
Any ideas how to unlock it?
HardReset shoud work but maby there is any solution to go back to patter lock screen?
Cheers!

etecdailey said:
Hello,
I've been using my Hero since 8 days.
Today i've entered pattern lock too many times to see what happens.
After few tries it has locked the device and ask me for an google acconut email and passwd.
But i cannot access it by my gmail account that i've entered on start up config.
Any ideas how to unlock it?
HardReset shoud work but maby there is any solution to go back to patter lock screen?
Cheers!
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I hope for your sake that you really entered your gmail account the very first thing you did with the phone? Otherwise you have a hardreset on your hands.

Certainly,
Otherwise It want be able to synchronize with my Calendar, Mail and Contacts from google account. And he did done it...
Any idea how to roll-back to the pattern screen?

Sorry to not be able to help but how many times is too many?

About 10/15 i think... Maby some more...
It should be in user manual

etecdailey said:
Today i've entered pattern lock too many times to see what happens.
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great idea!

Thx, it's good to know your device

etecdailey said:
Thx, it's good to know your device
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you might also try to input the wrong simcard PIN, PIN2, PUK and PUK2 (don't know if they call it like that everywhere...) too many times to see what happens. Its even better to know how you simcard works ;-)
just kidding, but i would actually just browse the net in order to check this kind of security locks instead of going full ahead and try it on my own device

I haven't been that adventurous myself to see what will happen if I get the unlock pattern wrong three times in a row but I have read that after those three times you will get a chance to enter your login information (login&pass) to validate your account information with Google... what happens then I have no idea of...

etecdailey said:
Hello,
Today i've entered pattern lock too many times to see what happens.
Cheers!
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How bored were you?

Tested one more time - i'm already afret HR.
[nice one: Android Market displayed long time a go installed apps]
no need to remember what whas the name of app that does (...) did't know...
ok:
After 5x wrong input device locks for 30sec.
Then You need to make a mistake 10x and wait 30sec. more.
15x is the third limit... again 30sec.
then it locks it self for 30sec. every time when pattern is bad.
But there is no warning message at all :/
No gmail login authorisation.
Dont know why...

Shahpur.Azizpour said:
you might also try to input the wrong simcard PIN, PIN2, PUK and PUK2 (don't know if they call it like that everywhere...) too many times to see what happens. Its even better to know how you simcard works ;-)
just kidding, but i would actually just browse the net in order to check this kind of security locks instead of going full ahead and try it on my own device
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simcard PIN, PIN2, PUK and PUK2 are ok ...tested...

barryallott said:
How bored were you?
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Not bored just curious.

bit too obvious: you did check caps-lock etc when entering your gmail details?

and mebbe try the username both with and without @gmail.com [or @googlemail.com]? I find both normally work online...

cdmackay said:
bit too obvious: you did check caps-lock etc when entering your gmail details?
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CAPS o/c.
But: @googlemail.com didn't try...
As i said, i've tried to do this again but never show up

got the same problem and like to unlock without an hardreset. is there a solution till now or is HR the only way to get my Hero back to life??
many thanx and greetz
murx

No other solution, sorry...

Too many pattern attempts. (Solved!)

This is the second time I've had this issue so i thought i'd post it.
Basically what happened was my phone was in my pocket and it locked itself out. I had pattern lock enabled so i was getting "Too many pattern attempts. please login" No matter how i put my information in username (by itself), [email protected], [email protected] it wouldn't authenticate me. The first time it happened to me i posted the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485903
No matter what i did i was not able to get in so i just reflashed the phone. After a reflash the authentication worked fine. At that time I was using one of JFs ROMS so i figured that may have been the issue. Recently the problem happened again. This time i was using one of Cyanogens ROMS. This time instead of flashing the phone i followed haykuro's thread to defeat pattern lock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485988
once i did those adb commands and rebooted the phone it asked to authenticate again but this time it worked! After it authenticates it will ask you for a new unlock pattern. And you're all set! hopefully it works for you. This is a really annoying problem and im surprised more people aren't having it.

Figured it out without hard reset!!! htc hero " too many pattern attempts"
I figured out a way to get past the screen lock "too many attempts" problem without doing a hard reset on my phone.
I called my Phone (from my Skype account so I could get to the notifications pull down. (couldn't get to home screen or setting from the call) But, I could pull down my notifications. I had a "new email" notification so I clicked on it so that my gmail would open. I then opened an email that had a URL link in it and I clicked on the link. This then opened my browser, which tried to open the link but, it couldn't because, I was still on my Skype call. This prompted the browser to give me an error message that had a Settings button. I clicked on the settings button and was able to turn on my wi-fi and connect to my home network ( I couldn't get to any other settings). At this point I pulled down my notifications again and clicked on the sign in failure notification and this time my phone was able to authenticate my gmail password, through the wi-fi connection.
FYI, I had to go to gmail and change my password as I'd forgotten it. If you don't remember your password you'll have to go through the gmail, I forgot my password/reset process.
If you have email notifications turned off, I think you can send a URL link through with a text message but, I've never done that. Maybe someone else can chime in on how to do that. It's probably pretty simple.
Lemme know if this works for you.

cjayl said:
I figured out a way to get past the screen lock "too many attempts" problem without doing a hard reset on my phone.
I called my Phone (from my Skype account so I could get to the notifications pull down. (couldn't get to home screen or setting from the call) But, I could pull down my notifications. I had a "new email" notification so I clicked on it so that my gmail would open. I then opened an email that had a URL link in it and I clicked on the link. This then opened my browser, which tried to open the link but, it couldn't because, I was still on my Skype call. This prompted the browser to give me an error message that had a Settings button. I clicked on the settings button and was able to turn on my wi-fi and connect to my home network ( I couldn't get to any other settings). At this point I pulled down my notifications again and clicked on the sign in failure notification and this time my phone was able to authenticate my gmail password, through the wi-fi connection.
FYI, I had to go to gmail and change my password as I'd forgotten it. If you don't remember your password you'll have to go through the gmail, I forgot my password/reset process.
If you have email notifications turned off, I think you can send a URL link through with a text message but, I've never done that. Maybe someone else can chime in on how to do that. It's probably pretty simple.
Lemme know if this works for you.
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Sounds like one hell of a flaw in the security to me. I actually hope that this gets fixed sometime in the near future.

I had this problem on a HTC Hero I could not run sqlite3 ont he command line for permissions so the second thread did not work for me. But did not want to flash my phone, this is how I solved it.
Take out the battery, OFF button does not work.
Take out the SD card.
Plugin the USB cable to the phone and turn the phone back on.
Download the Android SDK
untar to a new directory
run
./tools/adb -d shell
To get a shell open, you do not need to be root.
You should get a $ prompt, indicating you are not root
Make a call from another phone to the blocked phone and answer the call.
Then run the following command.
$ am start -a android.settings.SETTINGS -n com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings
This will bring the Settings window to the front so you can then disable the screen lock, thus proving that the screen lock facility not a security feature.
Screen lock is still useful so you don't make unintentional phone calls.

easier method
You can also enter your username, and in the password field just enter the string "null"

Unlock Pattern BUG without Hard reset - SOLVED

Finally figured out how to bypass that annoying email/password screen, i think this could help many peoples who do not want to Hard reset their gphone :
- Make a call to your gphone and respond.
- Just after closing the call, push repeatedely on "Home" button and there you are,
it works ... but it's not the case, we have some other things to do ...
- First, go to settings and disable that buggy Unlock Pattern feature.
- The problem is not yet solved, the buggy login/pass screen is still here hidden
somewhere, and will go back if you put your phone on sleep mode (disable screen
autoshutdown to keep your phone awake and your time with next tricks.
- Go to the gmail website and reset your password with a new one.
- After few seconds (you could also force a mail sync) Android will show you a small
triangle on the top status bar to warn you that you have to re-enter the new password
you have setup on gmail. After entering the new password, sync with google will be ok.
You can after that push the power to go back to that crappy email/password screen and
enter your email and new password, but that time the authentication will be
successful and your Android will be completely unlocked.
Hope this helped a lot of users like me.... give me feedback if it worked...
And sorry for my crappy English..

HD2 nothing but problems.

Cannot sync contacts from Gmail.
I put in my e-mail address.
next screen put in domain name, user name, pass word, leave domain blank.
hit finish says syncing.. then says to correct my exchange information.. t-mobile has no idea why it wont work.. suggest i make sure my batter is fully charged.
I cannot type capitalized letters. I hit the up arrow, all the letters go to caps, but when I actually hit one, its still smaller. cannot long into my work software because of this (password requires a cap letter) T-mobile has no idea, suggested i reboot phone (did not fix)
the speakerphone option works when it wants to.. sometimes i press the speaker button and i get speaker phone, sometimes I dont.. totally random T-mobile has no idea why, suggest I remove battery and reboot phone)
weather info never updates, except after a reboot. even when I hit "update now"
T-mobile says if I dont like the phone I can send it back.

sry to hear that. Sounds as a bad flash..(the rom)
I think you need to hard reset your device. That erase all data but reset the installed software.
settings-system-wipe device
remember to backup messages, contacts....

i would also like to know if any1 has a fix for the caps typing.. i hate it that you have to hit the up key EVERY time

lunaticz0r said:
i would also like to know if any1 has a fix for the caps typing.. i hate it that you have to hit the up key EVERY time
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hit it twice... the caps typing remains.
hit it the third time, and you're back to normal

How to get into a locked Samsung galaxy note 4

My friend recently died of a drug overdose and his mom wants to get into his phone. We have tried every password combination we could and the phone has not erased itself. Can anyone help us to figure out the password and get into the phone?

adiekader said:
My friend recently died of a drug overdose and his mom wants to get into his phone. We have tried every password combination we could and the phone has not erased itself. Can anyone help us to figure out the password and get into the phone?
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You can't. Not unless someone knows a way to get into his gmail. If you're just wanting to get recent pictures he's taken then you might be able to remove the SD card if he put one in it so she can have them for memories. But that's only if he didn't encrypt the SD card. You'd have to put the card into a card reader and put it in a laptop with a card reader.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2244741
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You can use dr. Ketan's lockscreen security bypass .
It works like charm.
It resets the security to swipe unlock.
But this has be tested on custom roms or atleast it requires a rooted firmware , cause the file has to be flashed via custom recovery .
This is the file :
https://mega.nz/#!KwNlUQKY!XPMcejxkzUeHOnKaQ6c9B6tk4Jwq1HgTNoPUDF8B_kY
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adiekader said:
My friend recently died of a drug overdose and his mom wants to get into his phone. We have tried every password combination we could and the phone has not erased itself. Can anyone help us to figure out the password and get into the phone?
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I did almost forget another option. The phone is probably not rooted. But if you took his carrier sim card out of the phone and put it in another phone that isn't locked and then go to www.gmail.com the right below the sign in area it will say "find my account" click on that. Then select the option to use phone number to recover account. Type in his phone number and have it send a text or call. You will now get the text or call on the new phone. Then follow the steps after you get his email to go back to gmail again and use the forgot password option to text you a reset link. "BUT BE WARNED! I THINK GOOGLE WILL LOCK THE HIS PHONE FOR 3 DAYS AFTER A PASSWORD RESET" Then after them 3 days have passed it will allow you to log in with the new password you made.
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phonepie said:
I did almost forget another option. The phone is probably not rooted. But if you took his carrier sim card out of the phone and put it in another phone that isn't locked and then go to www.gmail.com the right below the sign in area it will say "find my account" click on that. Then select the option to use phone number to recover account. Type in his phone number and have it send a text or call. You will now get the text or call on the new phone. Then follow the steps after you get his email to go back to gmail again and use the forgot password option to text you a reset link. "BUT BE WARNED! I THINK GOOGLE WILL LOCK THE HIS PHONE FOR 3 DAYS AFTER A PASSWORD RESET" Then after them 3 days have passed it will allow you to log in with the new password you made.
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P.s. if he's using a pattern or a pin I think you have to get the pattern or pin wrong a certain amount of times before it will ask you to login with gmail credentials instead. And dare I say if this is of a more important matter of finding out something legal through his phone, I really hate to say this but if he is still at the morgue or funeral home he may have registered his finger print through the phones finger print scanner. Which you could then test with his fingers. Sorry didn't want to say that. But them are the only two ways I know.

Mate sorry for your loss